Long Term Evaluation of Collaborative Ecosystem- and Community-Based Initiatives

Longitudinal assessment of 100 collaborative ecosystem management projects conducted since 1995. Assessment of ecological, social and process outcomes, project strategies, factors that facilitate and impede success, and the ways that participants define success.

Long term case studies of multiparty collaboration, documenting case histories, process characteristics and critical lessons learned about how to promote progress. Development of web-based resource for presenting cases and lessons learned.

• EM2003 Study
• Making Collaboration Work (Island Press, 2000).
• “Learning from Experience” Website